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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Masi Masapirappu purappadu @ Thiruvallikkeni - 2019

Today 13th
Feb 2019 is Masi masapirappu ~ the starting of the month of Masi and at
Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, Sri Parthasarathi Perumal had purappadu.

A
month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as
a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are
cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such
months (lunations) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days.

Miles
away, NASA is trying one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover
Opportunity, before calling it quits. The rover has been silent for eight
months, victim of one of the most intense dust storms in decades. Thick dust
darkened the sky last summer and, for months, blocked sunlight from the spacecraft's
solar panels. NASA said on Tuesday it will issue a final series of recovery
commands, on top of more than 1,000 already sent. If there's no response by today
—which NASA suspects will be the case—Opportunity will be declared dead, 15
years after arriving at the red planet.Team members are already looking back at Opportunity's achievements,
including confirmation water once flowed on Mars.

Opportunity
was, by far, the longest-lasting lander on Mars. Besides endurance, the
six-wheeled rover set a roaming record of 28 miles (45 kilometers.) Its
identical twin, Spirit, was pronounced dead in 2011, a year after it got stuck
in sand and communication ceased. Both outlived and outperformed expectations,
on opposite sides of Mars. The golf cart-size rovers were designed to operate
as geologists for just three months, after bouncing onto our planetary neighbor
inside cushioning air bags in Jan 2004.

To us
Masi is a month of religious significance. It is the month when we take bath in holy
rivers and Oceans.In this month comes
Masi maham ~ at Thiruvallikkeni on Tues – 19th Feb 2019, Sri
Parthasarathi in Garuda Sevai will come to Bay of Bengal – Masi magam.

For us, the lotus(red)
eyed Sriman Narayana Himself is the medicine; its innate healing power; the
Sweet Nectar – the power of wellbeing as well. He is one who made the
Universe, swallowed, remade, and went on to measure it, by seeking a gift
of three feet of land ….. and to Him we offer obeisance.